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...citizens who took part in a Tehran conference on alleged U.S. intervention in Iran. Muskie said that Carter's ban sprang from concern "about the safety of Americans traveling in a country where there is anti-American hostility." Added Muskie: "The purpose of the policy is not to punish people who violate it, but to prevent people from going." Snapped Carter when asked about Muskie's views: "I don't think Ed Muskie has any legal responsibility for determining whom to prosecute or not to prosecute...
...jurisdictional problems. Last month the attorney general for the state of California sued, among others, the mayor of Los Angeles, the entire city council, the chief of police and the board of trustees of the Los Angeles Unified School District, demanding that authorities put together some coordinated program to punish the criminals and cut down on violence and theft...
...both an objection to the showing of the film and a commitment to First Amendment liberties. There appears to be a consensus that Stork's and Hagen's judgement in this case was insensitive and irresponsible, but that it is not the business of the City of Cambridge to punish insensitivity or irresponsibility of this kind. This is, I think, a reasonable position...
...because we are asked to follow a U.S. President who dines with a rich Shah and kicks an ill ex-Shah around, who kisses the Soviet party boss on both cheeks, knowing that millions of Europeans are held in slavery by that man, and who now wants us to "punish" the U.S.S.R. because it's election time...
Critics of alternative punishment may imagine that it is not truly punitive. But they underrate the pain of being utterly in the power of the state and closely restricted in personal activity. Under such circumstances, there is a decisive loss of liberty. Perhaps society's main gain from alternative punishment is the elimination of the risk of nondangerous offenders being turned vicious by sheer exposure to prison life. The truth is that a great many convicts would offer no violent risk to society if they were at large. Perhaps half of all prisoners are clearly dangerous, though various experts...